The fountain of life opened, or, A display of Christ in his essential and mediatorial glory wherein the impetration of our redemption by Jesus Christ is orderly unfolded as it was begun, carryed on, and finished by his covenant-transaction, mysterious incarnation, solemn call and dedication ... / by John Flavell ...

Inference 1.

* 1.1If the death of Christ was that which satisfied God for all the sins of the Elect, then certainly there is an infinite evil in sin, since it cannot be expiated, but by an infinite satisfaction. Fools make a mock of sin, and there are but few souls in the world, that are duly sensible and affected with its evil; but certainly, if God should damn thee to all eternity, thy eternal sufferings could not satisfie for the evil that is in one vain thought.* 1.2 It may be you may think this is harsh and severe, that God should hold his creatures un∣der everlasting sufferings for sin, and never be satisfied with them any more. But when you have well considered that the object against whom you sin, is the infinite blessed God; which derives an infinite evil to the sin committed against him; and when you consider how God dealt with the Angels that fell, for one sin, and that but of the mind; for having no bodily

organs they could commit nothing externally against God; you will alter your minds about it. O the depth of the evil of sin! If ever you will see how great and horrid an evil sin is, mea∣sure it in your thoughts; either by the infinite holiness and ex∣cellency of God, who is wrong'd by it; or by the infinite suf∣ferings of Christ, who dyed to satisfie for it; and then you will have deeper apprehensions of the evil of sin.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Infer. 1.
• * 1.2

  Per hanc mor∣tem Christi val∣dè excitamur & ad caut••lam, & ad detestati∣onem peccati. Mortiferum enim sit nec••ss est, quod alit sanari non potu∣it; quàm morte Christi. Quis igitur seriò cogitans, peccata sua non esse aliter expiata quam san∣guine ipsius filii D••i; nor perhorrescet indies peccando, hanc praetiofissimum sanguinem quasi concul∣care. Daven, in Coli cap. 1. v. 20.